LRPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 505 



Genus BEMBINA. 



Mas. Corpus sat gracile. Caput et thorax pilis longis vestita. 

 Proboscis nulla. Palpi graciles, pilosi, caput longe superantes; 

 articulus 3us lanceolatus, 2i dimidio vix brevior. Antenna? breves, 

 pectinatse. Abdomen clavatum, alas posticas vix superans, apice 

 densissime fasciculatum. Pedes graciles, firnbriati ; calcaria qua- 

 tuor longa, gracilia. Alae anticae latae, elongatae, subacutae, costa 

 margineque exteriore subconvexis. 



Male. Body rather slender. Head and thorax clothed with 

 long hairs. Proboscis obsolete. Palpi slender, pilose, extending 

 much beyond the head ; third joint lanceolate, nearly half the length 

 of the second. Antennae short, moderately pectinated. Abdomen 

 hardly extending beyond the hind wings, increasing in breadth from 

 the base to the tip, which is furnished with a very dense tuft. Legs 

 slender ; femora and tibiae broadly but thinly fringed ; hind tibiae 

 with four long slender spurs. Wings broad, elongate. Fore wings 

 slightly acute ; costa and exterior border very slightly convex, the 

 latter very oblibue ; second inferior vein as near to the third as to 

 the first ; fourth remote. 



Bembina apicalis. 



Mas. Ochracea ; caput et thorax flavescente-cinereo pilosce ; ab- 

 domen apice flavescente-cinereum ; alee antica? fusco conspersa, 

 lineis tribus transversis obliquis undulatis maculaque discali 

 fuscis diffusis ; postica? maculis submarginalibus nigricanti- 

 bus. 



Male. Ochraceous. Head and thorax clothed with pale yel- 

 lowish cinereous hairs. Abdomen with a yellowish cinereous apical 

 tuft. Fore wings thinly speckled with brown, adorned with three 

 oblique irregular diffuse undulating brown lines ; a diffuse brown 

 spot in the areolet between the first and second lines ; a row of sub- 

 marginal blackish spots of various size. Length of the body 

 7 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



a. Ceylon. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



Genus EVONIMA. 



Foem. Corpus sat gracile. Proboscis breviuscula. Palpi 

 laeves, graciles, caput superantes; articulus 3us lanceolatus. 



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